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Insurance department seeks uniform file format for federal price‑transparency feeds to make insurer price data usable
Summary
Representative Derek Ammon introduced House Bill 705, a departmental request to codify the federal transparency and coverage rule into state law and to allow the insurance commissioner to require a standardized, machine‑readable file format so carriers' federal disclosures are interoperable for analysis and public tools. Insurance department staff
Representative Derek Ammon presented House Bill 705 as a department‑requested measure to improve the usefulness of insurer price‑transparency files that carriers are now required to post under federal rules. The bill largely mirrors the federal Transparency in Coverage rule but adds authority for the Insurance Commissioner to set a single, state‑level machine‑readable format so the data can be analyzed and repurposed by researchers, consumer tools and the department.
Insurance Department: uniform format is the missing link
Alex Feldweg, health reform director at the Insurance Department, told the committee the federal rule obliges carriers to post three machine‑readable files — negotiated in‑network rates, out‑of‑network allowed amounts and paid amounts, and prescription‑drug negotiated prices/historical net price — but it does not mandate a single, uniform…
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